What to Expect and Is It Worth Visiting
The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan or simply the Kazan Art Museum is located in an old two-story building of the early 20th century, so the museum building itself already deserves attention.
The permanent exhibition presents a valuable collection of icon paintings of the 16th-18th centuries, works by artists of the 18th-early 20th centuries-I. K. Aivazovsky, D. G. Levitsky, I. E. Repin, A. N. Benois and other famous Masters, household items (dishes, figurines). The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists, concerts and lectures.
The permanent exhibition, on the whole, deserves a visit. The ticket price for it is 300 rubles, for temporary exhibitions-payment is made separately. But if you want to save a little, then you should Guess Your visit on the first Tuesday of the month, when you can visit the museum for free.
🌐 Website: izo-museum.ru/
🕐 Working hours
from 10:00 to 18:00; Thursday from 10:00 to 20:00; Monday-day off. The last Tuesday of the month is a sanitary day.
💵 Entrance fee / ticket price
adults-300 rubles; pensioners and students-150 rubles; under 18 years – free of charge. The first Tuesday of the month is free for all visitors.
🚶 How to get there
located almost two kilometers from the Kremlin on Karl Marx Street, 64 (Museum on the map). You can get here on many flights of buses and trolleybuses, because K. Marx Street is one of the main ones. There are at least buses No. 10A, 22, 28, 30, 35, 54, 63, 89, 91 and trolleybuses №№ 2, 3, 5, 7, 8. a taxi ride from the pedestrian street of Bauman and from the Kremlin will cost from 100 rubles.
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